Mowlaverdi said the judiciary will incorporate the administration's proposals by increasing penalties or imposing new ones. She added it will be up to the administration to implement the other sections of the bill, which include "cultural and preventive education and support."

On Friday, however, Mowlaverdi reported on her Twitter account that 32 volumes of a report on confronting violence against women, which was prepared during the term of former reformist president Mohammad Khatami, are now missing and cannot be found in the archives of the Interior Ministry of the Interior.